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Story reasons. You may want the heroes to hold the pass or survive the Zombie apocalypse or flee form the goblin horde. Attacking the group with a large force and making the fight somewhat challenging but not overwhelming requires minions.

Evolutionary theory would suggest that a species that is inherently nice and compassionate to other species won't make it very far. So if you want you can say that gold dragons evolved to a better adapted species in 4th edition.

I am probably misunderstanding you, but it sounds to me like you're saying that distinct mechanics are good not because they give more choices during the game but simply because distinct mechanics are good? In practice didn't 3e result in a lot of class mechanics that made playing a character...

I think a lot of these options are just illusions set up by the game system. However, in reality how often do you actually have that many meaningful options? Most mid-level (6-10) wizards/clerics have ~6-8 spells that actually change the course of the fight. Most of these spells are obviously...

I actually assumed that the critters have a reason to be in the hex they are in. However, that does not mean that the PCs have a reason to fight them. If all the PCs are trying to do is to explore an area, then they are better of if they manage to detect the ankheg nest before stumbling into it...

I'ld feel, the way to do an exploration-based game in 4th is to handle the exploration of each hex as a skill challenge where failure results in a combat encounter. This models the fact that when exploring you actually try to avoid meaningless fights and makes it less of a DM's call or random...

Hey Zombie Master, welcome. As I beginner, I would direct you either towards 4th edition or some form of BD&D, both of them have a robust structure that allows you to play and that will provide you with a fun experience, even if you get a few things wrong in the beginning. 3.x is probably the...

Furthermore, given that wotc have gained a reputation for producing vaporware, it is in their best interest to only announce things they are sure to finish in a reasonable amount of time. Here DM tools are particularily useful as there are many milestones that they can sell as successes.

Given that this should be one of the easiest thing to assess with a decent market research, I would believe Wizard's number. Nitpick: 1:4 is 20%, 1:5 is 16.7%

By the rules, the feats become unusable and he has to retrain them one at a time. Which means his swapped powers revert back to his cleric class powers.

I'm shaving 25% of the monster's HP and add 1/3 to their damage. An other thing that reduces grind is removing some of the fiddly bits from the monsters. NPC abilities should be few but meaningful. Bad example: Whether a monster gets +1 to hit if it is bloodied is normally not going to...

Aren't we missing an update here?

Let's keep positive threads in open I agree. Moving it into the ghetto will only associate it with the pdf issue.

I agree, warrior's surge was one of the worst racial powers. I will certainly use one of the new options.

I'ld think if you are too antagonistic, this is going to be a short conversation. And Greg Leeds will get the impression that reaching out to disgruntled ex fans is pointless.

It would be great if we could turn this temporary folder into a permanent edition war folder and try to keep the ongoing negativity out of General.

Yeah, those will provide a host of roleplaying opportunities. I particularily like how they extended the list of available familiars from the mundane animals. I can see the disembodied hand being a hit with all necromancers.

I'm not sure I'ld call a game failed where everyone almost passes out from laughing hard.

I'm sure if both are triggered, you get to pick the order in which they activate. Of course, you need to g from up straight to dead for the lvl 24 power to work and i have no idea how often that happens in epic play.

I've been doing that too, but I'm not really happy about that solution.IME, the biggest challenge with these tiles is storing them in a way that you have access to the ones you need without enless hours of searching and flipping tiles. Hm, i wonder if cardsheets would work.